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I want to add something to the endless discussion about why it’s important to read literary fiction. The discussion is important.
You may have graduated from high school English class and feel like you never want to go back again, but you...

FAKE NEWS from Washington Free Beacon, dated August 17, 2015
Note: The image to the right is not real. It is fake. It is not a dead parrot, but it is not a real parrot either.
Reading and listening to the mainstream media, it has been suggested...

A Repost from 2013, slightly modified: This piece got a lot of play over at OpenSalon (when it was open). It was an “Editor’s Pick” and got more than 2,000 views, plus a good number of comments. That was back in 2012...

Apple CEO Tim Cook with iPad.
I have an open letter posted to Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, over at TW this month. I take Cook and Apple to task for not being creative with their digital book applications (the iBook Store and iBook reading...

Spanish edition paperback cover (2009)
I finally finished Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 last month (912 pages in English; 1,136 in Spanish). It represents a year of reading for me (with some other stuff thrown in, but nothing I stayed with...

I wrote a draft originally of an essay here at this blog on Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the “Star-Spangled Banner” before football games. The full piece has now been published over at Medium.com in The Coffeelicious...

I just finished revising the second draft of my next novel, which means I now have Draft #3 to print out. I’m doing that as I write this post. The whole process started back in October of 2013. Draft #1 clocked in at about 160,000 words...

Melissa Benoist as the new Supergirl (aka Kara Danvers)
I kept getting goosebumps every time the promo pieces for the new Supergirl show came on TV in the first three weeks of October. The week before the show debuted I told my wife that I...

Source: NASA Earthrise from the moon – Apollo 8
Over at Mashable they just posted an interesting article on social media’s perception of the climate change issue. According to the article, “Internet has revelation that climate...

We’ve all been wondering how to counteract the lunacy and mayhem that seems to have seriously marked 2015 throughout the world. Right? It’s not just terrorists, out-of-control cops, and criminals. There’s a lot of hatred a...

I want to share some thoughts on what I read this summer, just so you know what writers do with all that spare time they have. At the end of this essay I also report on some of the stuff I have been working on. This was my first summer being...

There’s no question that Tony Doerr is one of our most lyrical and thoughtful writers. If you haven’t read any of his work, I highly recommend his two collections of stories as a good place to start:
The Shell Collector (Scribner...